Looking for the Confederate War

    Recently, Dana Shoaf, editor at Civil War Times , did a live stream from the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. When the guide w...

In the county studies that I have written in the past, I’ve shied away from the large cities and their respective counties in the state. I j...

My march through the literature concerning North Carolina and the War continues. Over the past weekend, I finished D. H. Hill, Jr.’s Confede...

Sorry for the lack of posts this week – been busy, been out of town, going to Raleigh to do research tomorrow. Just been one of those weeks....

I recently found a press release about the 26th NCT Reactivated’s latest preservation project: the flag of the 22nd North Carolina Troops. I...

Many of you are familiar with Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried . This book is about the Vietnam war. Well, I’ve slightly reorder...

Well, how about a look around to see what is going on. A week or so ago, the Civil War Preservation Trust announced its top ten endangered b...

Since I am going to be in Caldwell County tonight, I thought I would brush up on my Caldwell County history by writing this sketch of the ar...

I thought I would spend a little more time dealing with Charlotte’s war-time history. Historiography: To my knowledge, there has only been o...

This past Friday, I had a chance to spend a couple of hours with J. Timothy Cole and Bradley R. Foley, authors of a new book on Brig. Gen. C...